Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14976

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14976.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Oct 02, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14976: The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Impacted Vendors

poppler 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns